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Could Jim Mora leave UCLA for Washington?

USC’s hire of Steve Sarkisian has already opened up speculation that Washington is gunning for UCLA’s Jim Mora. I broke down all the reasons he has to stay in Los Angeles in the Daily News, but for simplicity’s sake, I’ll list both sides now.

The case for UW: Alma mater, better facilities (including a new, on-campus stadium).The case for UCLA: Two-year foundation already built, natural recruiting advantages, family settling in (son at Claremont McKenna, father in Palm Springs), weather, not having to coach against Myles Jack.

As for the murmurs placing him in Seattle today, well … one Jim Mora definitely was.

He’s as good as gone. Recruits are already starting to jump ship. The UCLA AD better pony up now and give Mora an extension ASAP or they will lose more recruits.

BruinAZ

You wish!! No chance.

ProbationU

The Crapper just can’t stand a little competition. They get their a$$es handed to them and rather than hire a good coach, they root for ours to leave. Weak!

http://amillennialist.blogspot.com Santiago Matamoros

That’s how far Troy has fallen.

Joe Blow

You are right on Capper. Mora is house hunting as we speak. Hundley to NFL and the rats are jumping off the ship. Why would Lessa want to stay in a town where his program will always be second fiddle when he can FINALLY get his DREAM job?

NonAlumBruin

You are hilarious. You might be a lunatic. Fix your avatar.

Dominick King

I couldn’t agree more with you NonAlumBruin, Mora is smart to stay with UCLA he have a better chance of winning now then with Wsahington

The Capper

One thing we will agree on is that Mora is smart. Be that as it may, he knows that the golden days of local recruits falling into his lap are long gone. With a new coach that has a personality and sanctions done in a year, he actually has competition in LA for talent. He has easier days in Seattle and they can pay him a lot more than a public university that values basketball over football.

ProbationU

Once again, the Crapper is spewing stupidity. Football draws a lot more fans and makes a lot more money at UCLA than basketball, and it’s not even close. Guerrero is certainly not a great AD, but I think he can do math well enough to figure out how to keep Mora. Enjoy 7 win Steve. A very inspiration choice.

The Capper

UCLA is a basketball school first. Look where your alums and boosters put their money: the Wooden Center. That’s why your FB practice facilities are crap, you don’t even have a 100 yd practice field and your stadium is 100 miles away. You are hoping that these don’t make a difference to Mora, but they do. When he leaves for UW your AD Chubs is going to hire another coach that let’s his players Hop The Wall. Sucks to be you.

FreeShabazz

Thirty five fourteen

anno nimus

Damn, dude. that asswhoopin must really hurt. 35-14

grave soul

Do they teach logical reasoning at sc? I’ve always known that UCLA is an academically superior school (hence so many UCLA grads that go on to study at the the top 10 ranked universities in the world, and vice versa), but your fear tactics failed miserably and are quite embarrassing.

So you are saying Sark who is going to inherit a team who got a_ _ whooped by Mora 35-14, is going to beat him. Your logic says -1 + -1 =+1. By the way, Mora isn’t going anywhere. He’s got more character than all your previous coaches combined and that include Sark.

You seem to be of two minds: (1) he’s as good as gone; (2) UCLA better give him an extension.

FreeShabazz

Three five one four

Dominick King

I just don’t think he will leave UCLA, because his family is already settle here in Los Angeles. Why would he up and leave a program that already have what it take to go to Rose Bowl or BCS Championship for Wasahington where he would have to rebuild from the bottom

The Capper

From the bottom? UCLA only had one more win than Washington. If that mean UW is at the bottom then UCLA isn’t far of…hence another reason why Mora jumps ship.

FreeShabazz

Blowout

anno nimus

Complete ASSWHOOPIN’!!! your program is more “done” than it was 3 months ago. Watch all the players transfer out of USC, it’s gonna be a sad (for trOJies) state of affair for you a-holes. 35-14 love it!!!

WhatsBruin

Mora stays….guaranteed. It’s completely illogical for him to leave

The Capper

The truth hurts.

https://www.facebook.com/charles.bucket.3 Charlie Bucket

Crapper, your desperation is showing….sure WA is desperate and floating rumors, but this one is so lame it’s hard to even discuss!!!
get used to Khardasian!!!

The Capper

Not my rumor Mr. Cruising With Pride. Do a search on that inter-webbie thing in the news section. Even your boy The Wanger thinks this is a legit topic.

FreeShabazz

The Capper??? That’s a great nick name for Anthony Barr in the 4th quarter playing SUC!!!

http://amillennialist.blogspot.com Santiago Matamoros

Don’t mess with Jack.

You don’t know Jack.

UCLA Owns the Rose Bowl

35-14. No elite coach interested in the pUSC position… Orgeron headed out of town… Yes, it does.

U$C hires a mediocre coach, and all of TroGan nation can only hope that Mora bolts for UW.

Face it, if Mora stays, UCLA will continue to rise. The next two years, at a minimum, look pretty rosy for UCLA.

gotroy22

It was a stinker. I thought we’d at least get Franklin.

http://amillennialist.blogspot.com Santiago Matamoros

That’s why you keep pining for Mora to leave.

The Capper

Great quote from the LA Times:
“UCLA’s only official comment came from a school spokesman who said, “Jim Mora is our football coach.” However, a person familiar with the situation said the Mora-to-Washington scenario is one that UCLA Athletic Director Dan Guerrero has feared since USC fired Lane Kiffin as coach in September. The person spoke anonymously because of a lack of authorization to speak publicly about the matter.”

The recruiting boards are also lit up with recruits adding USC to their short list and taking a “wait and see approach” to the Gutty Little Bruin Nation.

FreeShabazz

35-14

LTEfan

We don’t know what will happen, and maybe Mora will indeed jilt UCLA and leave for UW. But what you wrote here indicates that UCLA’s AD has been able to plan for months to financially persuade Mora to stay. If Mora decided he wanted to go to UW no matter how much UCLA paid him, then indeed UCLA would be out of luck. We shall find out soon, given the time pressures for hiring coaches and recruiting.

The Capper

Keep telling yourself that LTE…

LTEfan

Keep telling myself what? I didn’t even disagree with your prediction, I said we don’t yet know what will happen. Read first, shoot later.

drakejr

Reading is hard when someone is trying to keep track of all his troll alts.

anno nimus

35-14

EncinitasBruin

Reported at 9:10pm via Brandon Huffman of BRN: According to UCLA commit Adarius Pickett’s father, UCLA’s coaches, including Jim Mora, just left their home in the last 20 minutes…headed over to Joe Mixon’s home.”

92104bruinfan

Was traveling and in meetings all day yesterday but kept peeking at twitter feeds about this. These visits Monday evening def calmed my nerves. I do think Mora parlays this into a 2 year extension and more $ for his assistant pool. Go Bruins!

OCBrewin

Adam Gorney ‏@adamgorney59m
From all indications last night and this morning, from talking to recruits, etc., Jim Mora is not leaving #UCLA

The Capper

Conversation went something like this: “You know Joey, Seattle is actually a nice place to live and we could use someone like you…”

http://amillennialist.blogspot.com Santiago Matamoros

More wishful thinking.

Your and Joe’s constant squeaking about Mora leaving shows his value as a coach …

… and your desperation.

The Capper

Is there really any question whether is good or not? The guy is a good coach, not great, but good. If he wasn’t, the Dawgs at UW wouldn’t be drooling all over themselves.

ProbationU

And licking their own ba!!s like Dawgs do. But it simply isn’t happening. Mora will have new deal within 24 hours.

The Capper

You lick your dog’s ba!!s? Is this a typical Bruin habit?

QTran

Don’t know about Mora leaving this year after what he said after the SC game about players sticking around but for sure some of the other coaches are interviewing.

The Capper

You’re saying Mora wouldn’t have reacted out of emotion? Nah, he’s not like that. He and his father are always thoughtful communicators.

MattMattwiles26

“… And their football stadium is 100 miles away.”? Really? Is that USC math? That’s probably the same logic you have when you tell your girlfriend what you have is 8 inches.

anno nimus

thirty-five – fourteen.

CaliGrown

The Capper = JoeBlow

Don’t be fooled.

http://amillennialist.blogspot.com Santiago Matamoros

I was wondering about that.

Similar syntax.

OCBrewin

The only way the Sark hire makes any sense is if Udub gets Mora. If this happens, Pat Hayden played a pretty good bet.

gotroy22

That’s what I’m hoping, otherwise it sucks.

OCBrewin

Anyone see Ronnie Lott on PAC-12 Network…whining about how Mora showed a lack of class by celebrating at the collie the way he did…Myopia is alive and well across town…and they hate UCLA blowing them out like WE did…funny, I thought Mora could have put up more points but held back…showing much more class than SUC could even fathom.

92104bruinfan

Saxon of ESPNLA b*tched about the same thing…one thing to come from a SC alum but quite another from a supposedly neutral beat writer. Carroll had no problem running up the scores on conference foes back in the day. Let ’em eat dirt. Go Bruins!

ProbationU

They were great about continually rubbing 50-0 in everyone’s face…but when the tables are turned are the first to whine about somebody rubbing it in . A bit of a joke.

They just don’t get it. Still complaining about Harbaugh going for 2. Hilarious. I saw Carroll up on Arkansas 63-7 and throwing for another touchdown to win 70-7. What was his deal? If you want to dish it out, learn to take it.

gotroy22

I thought it was even more of a facial in 2009 when Pete had Matt throw that long bomb in the last seconds up 21-7. The guttie fans sitting near me flipped out when that happened.

anno nimus

exactly, so stop bitching about our coach/or ex-coach celebrating like he did. He deserved it.

http://amillennialist.blogspot.com Santiago Matamoros

When USC called a time-out at the end of their humiliation Saturday, I thought that Mora might go for the end-zone like classy Pete Carroll did against Neu, but then I remembered that Mora actually tries to do the right thing.

http://amillennialist.blogspot.com Santiago Matamoros

A Trojan complaining about a lack of class?

Isn’t that like the Sun complaining about light?

anno nimus

no, that was more like Night complaining about darkness…it’s USC, remember?

http://amillennialist.blogspot.com Santiago Matamoros

OJ’s still looking for the real killer.

https://www.facebook.com/charles.bucket.3 Charlie Bucket

Mora is no dummy, he is holding all the cards, so he SHOULD play them for a raise!! he be a fool not to use his leverage for a raise!! besides, SOuthern Cal giving Sarkdasian that much money is absurd!

so Mora should get his! i got no problem with him using his bargaining power…

Bruin 34

I love seeing the SUC bums on here! No way Mora leaves after the Sark hire. Mora will own his a$$ just like Carroll did with Dorrell. Haden just gave Mora and the UCLA nation an early Christmas present. I love Haden! Best AD SUC has ever had! Thank you Pat!

Friend who works at Fox Sports…Doubt he will leave, but SC will make a play, I believe.

drakejr

5* RB prospect Joe Mixon just listed his top 4 teams after Mora visited him yesterday. UCLA was on the list, so he has at least one recruit convinced he’s staying.

OCBrewin

top of the list!
“@Joe_MainMixon28m
Final 4
1)Ucla
2)Cal
3)Wisconsin
4)Oklahoma”

The Capper

Should read: 1) UCLA/UW

LTEfan

He gave this list after Cal went 1-11, winless in the conference and against FBS teams?

ProbationU

Cal was always his top school and UCLA wasn’t even in his top 10. Mora has been working it very hard. I think he visitied him with the whole staff last night.

LTEfan

Yeah, I hear you. I’m just amazed Cal is still on his list. With the state of their program right now, why would a 5-star recruit go there?

ProbationU

I wouldn’t bet on him going to Cal for that reason. Plus, they throw the ball all the time.

Brewins

I LOVE how all the USC trolls have to talk about is the hypothetical scenario they’ve made up in their tiny little minds where Mora bolts to UW. Whatever they need to take the sting out of the 35-14 loss they suffered to a “terrible program” that has now beaten their bums two years in a row. Talk all they want about who is leaving or staying and how recruits are cutting UCLA out of the picture but they’re only trying to get over the loss, which is the only thing that matters, we played you in football and we beat you, SUC it!

LTEfan

Jack, what is the latest on Mora staying or leaving? Time for a new post.

Clen Jim

Cmon Jack. posting lately?? Scotty beats ur posts…..

anno nimus

Give Jack a break, judging by how often he posts, my guess is, this a part-time gig for him.

OCBrewin

I love this quote: “It’s an exciting time at UCLA, man, It’s an exciting time to be a Bruin, man. If you want to play for a fun, tough, hard-nosed football team that can go win games anywhere, come to UCLA, because it’s brewin’ over here.”

BruinInSeattle

How could Mora recruit for UCLA knowing he was going to leave IF he was going to leave? I don’t see it. Too much integrity. He’s not like some Carroll cast-off.

BruinInSeattle

BESIDES…it would be fun as heck for the hyper-competitive Mora to compete against his good buddy, Suck, in the hotbed of Los Angeles college football. Going to UW would be a step backwards, as Suck undoubtably proved by vacating the job at UDub.

EncinitasBruin

If Mora were planning to bolt, why would he fire his running backs coach? Makes no sense.

ProbationU

He isn’t leaving. That’s why.

anno nimus

One of our recruits Adarius Pickett (El Cerrito HS) tweeted that Jim Mora and the coaches were at his house at 9:01 PM last night, and were on their way to Joe Mixon’s house, that’s good enough for me to know that JM being at UW is all BS, rumors started by the delusional husky fans.

ProbationU

What happened was someone tweeted that Jim Mora was in Seattle, which was true. It was the elder Jim Mora who was up to be on the broadcast for the Saints v. Seahawks. Different Jim Mora.

anno nimus

And it’s also true that Jim Mora will be in Seattle this week for a Charity event. Not sure which Jim, Jr. or Sr., my guess is Sr. since this is a time to be recruiting.

http://amillennialist.blogspot.com Santiago Matamoros

… and Trojans.

BruinInSeattle

Mora Sr. was in Washington, as per Jack’s earlier tweet. Don’t know why this isn’t common knowledge by now, other than it helps the sensationalization of the “story”

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